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            <title>2007: Murphy's Law, and 2008 plans</title>
            <link>http://macidol.com/jamroom/bands/682</link>
            <description><![CDATA[My 2007 album, Murphy's Law is complete. It's only four songs, but remember that 2007 also brought two additions to Killing Time, and the entire Family Portrait album, so the year hasn't been as bleak as it might seem.

Freelax and Hectic Day, long available on here as demos, have been revised and are now complete.


In 2008 I plan to hit my Symphony hard, starting with polishing off the first movement. It's been note-complete for more than two years.  With Logic I can play the MIDI controls in real-time without changing the notes, so I should be able to make at least the first movement happen.

Next up will probably be the third movement, since I have all the major themes written for that one, and it will also be the shortest movement.  

If I can finish the first and third movements in 2008, plus the RPM challenge, I'll have done a lot. ]]></description>
            <author>Chrooke</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:50:56 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Greetings!</title>
            <link>http://macidol.com/jamroom/bands/682</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Howdy, all.

I've stashed two of my GarageBand songs here.

Now that I've got a MIDI keyboard, I can be a bit more creative, so expect that future releases won't be so loop-bound.

I'm always open to feedback, so please let me know what you think. ]]></description>
            <author>Chrooke</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2004 16:12:51 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>My foray into symphonic composition</title>
            <link>http://macidol.com/jamroom/bands/682</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I have posted the first movement of the symphony I'm working on.  I would love to know what you think! ]]></description>
            <author>Chrooke</author>
            <pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2004 21:21:55 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Symphony (i) much improved</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Following suggestions from the forum, I have replaced many of the intruments in the Symphony with orchestral samples. I've also taken advantage of the opportunity to remix some parts and tweak a little of the music, too. ]]></description>
            <author>Chrooke</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2004 03:31:35 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>My first venture into lyrics</title>
            <link>http://macidol.com/jamroom/bands/682</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I just posted a Mother's Day song for Julie, written from our duaghter Ella's perspective, but sung by me, for obvious reasons. Actually, it's a duet with the two of us. ]]></description>
            <author>Chrooke</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2004 17:05:46 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Album name</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I've come up with a name for my album - <b>Self-actualizing</b>.

I have updated all of the MP3 files and the song information to reflect this. ]]></description>
            <author>Chrooke</author>
            <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2004 04:15:37 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Ella starts to make the rounds...</title>
            <link>http://macidol.com/jamroom/bands/682</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.macidol.com/jamroom/bands/447/" target="_blank"><span class="bb_url">bananakiller</span></a>, the excellent band from St. Tropez, has used samples of Ella in <a href="http://www.macidol.com:80/jamroom/play.php?band_id=447&song_id=3297&mode=song_hifi" target="_blank"><span class="bb_url">bananababy</span></a>.

Excellent song, and I'm not biased one bit! ]]></description>
            <author>Chrooke</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:34:51 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Ella's in another bananakiller song</title>
            <link>http://macidol.com/jamroom/bands/682</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Check out <a href="http://www.macidol.com:80/jamroom/play.php?band_id=447&song_id=3502&mode=song_hifi" target="_blank"><span class="bb_url">i want 2 sleep (bananababy)</span></a> by <a href="http://www.macidol.com/jamroom/bands/447/" target="_blank"><span class="bb_url">bananakiller</span></a>. ]]></description>
            <author>Chrooke</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:02:20 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Time contrained songs</title>
            <link>http://macidol.com/jamroom/bands/682</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In my <a href="http://www.macidol.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=758" target="_blank"><span class="bb_url">announcement thread</span></a> for <a href="http://www.macidol.com:80/jamroom/play.php?band_id=682&song_id=2845&mode=song_hifi" target="_blank"><span class="bb_url">Forty Minutes (to Fool Around)</span></a> I asked anybody else who had imposed a time constraint on themselves to tell us about it in the thread. Here is a summary of the results. <a href="http://www.macidol.com:80/jamroom/play.php?band_id=682&song_id=2845&mode=song_hifi" target="_blank"><span class="bb_url">Forty Minutes (to Fool Around)</span></a> <a href="http://www.macidol.com:80/jamroom/bands/682/" target="_blank"><span class="bb_url">Chris Cooke</span></a> 40 minutes
<a href="http://www.macidol.com:80/jamroom/play.php?band_id=801&song_id=2410&mode=song_hifi" target="_blank"><span class="bb_url">Turn</span></a> <a href="http://www.macidol.com/jamroom/bands/801/music.php/index.php" target="_blank"><span class="bb_url">Robert Andrews</span></a> a little over 40 minutes
<a href="http://www.macidol.com:80/jamroom/play.php?band_id=1049&song_id=3449&mode=song_hifi" target="_blank"><span class="bb_url">Where Has The Light Gone?</span></a> <a href="http://www.macidol.com/jamroom/bands/1049/index.php" target="_blank"><span class="bb_url">Joanna Sandsmark</span></a> a little over 30 minutes
<a href="http://www.macidol.com/song.php?band_id=801&song_id=3532" target="_blank"><span class="bb_url">Honey Coco Brown Sugar Momma</span></a> <a href="http://www.macidol.com/jamroom/bands/801/music.php/index.php" target="_blank"><span class="bb_url">Robert Andrews</span></a>  40 minutes]]></description>
            <author>Chrooke</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2004 03:14:16 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Row the boat</title>
            <link>http://macidol.com/jamroom/bands/682</link>
            <description><![CDATA[On Saturday night I had fun with "Row, row, row your boat". On Monday afternoon I had more fun and changed the ending. I realized after midnight (so early Tuesday AM) that I had uploaded the changed version to the LoFi version, so both versions were on at once.  This has now been corrected, so there is only one version (HiFi) and it has the new ending. ]]></description>
            <author>Chrooke</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2004 04:18:14 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Competition 2</title>
            <link>http://macidol.com/jamroom/bands/682</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Fjamily is my entry for Competition 2. Please give me a listen! ]]></description>
            <author>Chrooke</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2004 01:08:35 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>I've submitted to &quot;The Composer Channel&quot;</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I have submitted "Maestra Discordia" to <a href=http://www.showprogramming.com/TheComposerChannel.asp>The Composer Channel</a> for inclusion in their Internet radio program of artists using Garritan Personal Orchestra. 

I'll post another message when I find they've actually included me in their program.  I encourage you to check out what's already there, though. ]]></description>
            <author>Chrooke</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2005 01:12:46 +0100</pubDate>
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